This has been a fun series so far. It's kind of a cozy mystery I guess. Sometimes I have trouble categorizing those. The mother/daughter dynamic still reminds me a lot of Gilmore Girls. At times Mac is more mature than her mother, and if this wasn't fluff it would probably bother me more than it does.
So far I think the first book Sleuthing for a Living is the best one, but these two were pretty good as well. I do find it unreal that a P. I. owned a very expensive car (that got passed down to Mackenzie when the P. I. died). I don't think private investigators make that much. I mean he wasn't like Thomas Magnum living on Robin Masters' estate. He lived in, and owned a sort of rundown apartment building.
I also had some issues with book 3 in regards to the timeline of certain happenings, and also in regards to a couple of things that were a stretch to believe, but I'm not taking these books too seriously. These are light reads for when you just want brain candy.
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
Genre: Mystery
Novice
PI Mackenzie Taylor is going stir crazy. Deep in the throes of a
classic New England winter, the endless hours of following cheating
spouses have left her feeling jaded and restless. Not to mention the
emotional tug of war when the father of her teenage child suddenly
starts hanging around and putting a major crimp in Mackenzie’s fledgling
relationship with the hot Detective Hunter Black. So when she's asked
to help find a missing bride, Mackenzie jumps at the chance to do some
good.
Juggling the missing persons case, two headstrong men,
being a new landlord of a rundown building, and a sixteen-year-old
daughter/ BFF actually acting her age for once and crushing on a much
older man has Mackenzie’s contemplating the upside of running away from
home. Instead she throws herself into work. But the more dirt she digs
up on the missing bride, the murkier the investigation becomes. Was it a
simple case of post wedding jitters or did the missing woman make a
fatal mistake? And is Mackenzie about to follow her footsteps right into
the clutches of a killer?
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Genre: Mystery
Content: Strong language
It’s St. Patrick’s Day
in Beantown, and Mackenzie Elizabeth Taylor needs the Luck of the Irish
to solve her latest mystery—namely, who was the mysterious Uncle Al, the
man who left her his apartment building as well as his PI business? But
that personal investigation has to take a backseat to raising her
teenage genius Mac, and dealing with her immature baby-daddy and
demanding mother. Not to mention taking on a job that will actually
produce some green.
The case is a gnarly dispute by two Irish
pub owners who happen to be brothers as well as rivals over a missing
inheritance. With the entire city out pub-crawling, Mackenzie goes
hunting for a pot of gold...but winds up with a body instead.
With
an assist from Mac, Mackenzie must slip into her gumshoes and go
toe-to-toe with Detective Hunter Black, her neighbor, protector, and
main squeeze, in order to solve her case. this case and claim the reward
before someone else. Can the mother daughter team successfully
investigate in the middle of a city-wide chaos? Or is their luck about
to run out?
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